Rose Rougeau, spokesperson for AAA Texas. "By the end of May, gasoline prices should begin to decline once refineries have completed the switchover from MTBE-blend gasoline to ethanol blend," she added.

1.) Daylight savings time expected to strain production...as posted in the WTF thread.

2.) "Concerns over falling gasoline inventories from decreased refinery production and fewer imports have boosted oil and gasoline prices lately. On Wednesday, the government reported that total U.S. motor gasoline inventories fell by 3.8 million barrels to 216.4 million barrels, a sharper decline than the 1.4 million barrel drop that analysts had expected."

It was 1.75.. went up to about 2.75.. so when it went back down to 2.00 we thought it was a OMG WTF great deal.. than they raise it to about 3.00 and now it'll drop to 2.25 and we will be OMG WTF happy.. than they raise it to 3.25 and than drop it to 2.50 and we will be like OMG GAS IS GREAT... and as we keep getting happy we forget how much bigger the holes of our asses are getting.

It was 1.75.. went up to about 2.75.. so when it went back down to 2.00 we thought it was a OMG WTF great deal.. than they raise it to about 3.00 and now it'll drop to 2.25 and we will be OMG WTF happy.. than they raise it to 3.25 and than drop it to 2.50 and we will be like OMG GAS IS GREAT... and as we keep getting happy we forget how much bigger the holes of our asses are getting.

Or maybe it's because oil is a depleting natural resource and the laws of supply and demand actually work.

Or maybe it's because oil is a depleting natural resource and the laws of supply and demand actually work.

but what if its not? i havent seen any proof either way.

IMO america needs to get off their *** and start drilling up in the ANWR, i mean hell, we can put that to use without even harming the ecosystem, i dont see what the problem is. couple that with the oil still fresh in the gulf and we can get off foreign dependency for oil, and stick it to them.

Up in Wilpo where i go to school, gas is always more expensive than home...i paid $2.85 for 93 and im sure it went up....i just set my timing back to stock so i can run 87 again...and thats still $2.55 what a treat

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lol werd. i might spend 30$ this month on gas...............total. plus now that the GT has no cats it gets awesome mileage. last month i made a full tank last two weeks which included a few long freeway runs, and i filled the bike up (which cost all of 9$)

yeah can't wait, getting my license friday. gas milage on the cobra went up after i ditched the cats and got 4.10's, but still i fill up 2x a week, i drive abou 600-700 miles/week

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lol i suck @ teh license test. i couldnt stay in the circle worth a damn. even my buddy couldnt do it on his F4i

but all is good, i have the dimensions and the how-to on the course you take (at least for the CA M1 license) so im gonna get some chalk and cones and build the course on my street. if all else fails just a permit is ok for me, i just cant ride on the freeway, at night or carrying a passenger.

Or maybe it's because oil is a depleting natural resource and the laws of supply and demand actually work.

Or maybe it is the fact that the price of oil is all based on speculation...where if the butterflies return a day late, the price per barrel has to jump $2....or if we move the clocks ahead and hour, the price has to go up because people MIGHT drive more...because we all know cars don't have headlights, so we will all want to squeeze in an extra hour of driving 3 weeks early...so I would expect it to bottom out when we fall back an hour...oh wait, then we might use that extra hour in the morning instead of at night...****, better jump the price again in the fall.

Or, that the gov't has made it so damn hard to build new, more efficient, refineries that the market can hardly keep up with demand.

The whole depleting resource is true, but, no one knows how much is left or how long we have...so it is back to the whole speculation thing again.

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yeah, gas is right around $2.50 here again... it was down to $2.09 ish. I miss it ... oh well. And yes, you can look into how much oil is being found vs. how much oil is being used and figure in the amount in reserves and under taps and see how long it will be until we use it all up (the joys of differential equations). Anyway, a site I was reading for a biochemistry speech on hydrogen production via non-photosynthetic anaerobic hydrogenase activity, and they said in another 10-ish years there will be an oil crisis where the cost of gas makes the price of everything sky rocket... and by like 2040-2050 there won't be enough oil around to make a difference for anything. They had a nice graph too... but I can't find that source.

Anyway, I say bring on the hydrogen engines. There is so much more potential with hydrogen engines than with gasoline engines.. plus they're up to 4 times as efficient at turning available energy into motion (instead of just heat). Think about the ease of compression. I would love to see a hydrogen engine making MONSTER horsepower just to get the idea of hydrogen vehicles really out there.